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Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

Nottinghamshire Police Force and Accountability

the 1990s in a general sense, but critics say that there is a weakening in respect to community relations (Downing, Stepney & Jor...

Media and Law Enforcement

people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...

Force and Law Enforcement Organization

unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...

The Jeremiah Mearday Case

theory is pertinent in this particular case due to its fundamental component being that of social order and organized coercion. T...

Present and Future Policing

2001). It is true that there have been, and still are, families who have a history of police associations where a father and son a...

Female Preference Shown in Policies of Sexual Harassment

This question of definition is addressed in the Harvard University procedure manual. In the manual, it is noted that defining sexu...

Chapter Summaries on Police Deviance

thought, ultimately rendering "peace officers" the instigators of terrible crimes against humanity. The concept of a rational soc...

18th Century Paris Fire and Police Services

has a smoke detector and fire extinguisher, as well as firearms to ward off criminals, things were much simpler in those days. Of ...

Police Brutality and a 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

engine ("Brit music"). After police stopped the car, a man in his twenties had been arrested ("Brit music"). The article report...

Candidate Recruitment in Police Departments

within their districts, some join the FBI for which salaries commanded get close to six figures at the highest levels ("Police"). ...

Overview of Community Police Academies

strategies (2000). By and large, this has been a grass roots effort. However, not too long ago, the President committed approxima...

Autocratic and Democratic Styles of Leadership

final style is non-directive, this is also known as a Laissez Faire styles which is indirect and involves deferring to others. Whe...

Minorities and Brutality by Law Enforcement

brutality actually affects individuals (Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality, 2003). Consider the case of Aaron Willi...

Police Accountability in the United Kingdom

developed, but the balances have been hard to maintain (Zander, 1985). There are many cases that appear to indicate that there h...

Law Enforcement Officials and Stress

The outcome of that stress can be phenomenal in terms of its impact on the officer and on the performance of their job. Those...

Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men

having had no experience in warfare or in anything like what they would see. And, they had only been in Poland for 3 weeks and her...

Criminal Justice System and the Effects of Technology

details. Digital enhancement of such evidence has made the retrieval and identification of even the tiniest and most illegible ev...

RCMP Motivational Processes

on the proposal that there was a "ladder" with five rungs in which people would start on the bottom rung and work to satisfy their...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Communication Processes

are not unionized and therefore needed fair representation to provide civilian oversight in regards to labor relations and other m...

Community Policing Advantages and Disadvantages

of the Community Relations Services concerted national effort to facilitate community oriented policing in police departments and ...

Nazi Genocide and Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

to control himself as he spoke. The battalion, he said plaintively, had to perform a frightfully unpleasant task. This assignmen...

Criminal Justice III

calls for service either as a patrol officer or as a desk officer and follow up investigations of crime. Everything else is in sup...

Law Enforcement Tool of Profiling

In twenty pages this paper discusses how profiling is being used more commonly by police and law enforcement as a crime fighting t...

The Amadou Diallo Shooting From a Functionalist Perspective

This paper addresses the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo and subsequent acquittal of all police officers involved. The autho...

Law Enforcement and the Impact of Stress

They do not see society on its best behavior. They are not able to have the joys that some occupations have. "Its not amazing th...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Concept of a National Police Force

cultures vary. For instance, Subway sandwich shops open in Chinatown for example and they open in the midwest. Certainly, the clie...

Memo, Letter and Email Writing Exercises

There is always uncertainty in any new venture, and I found in the course of the research for this report that other cities essent...

Law Enforcement Personnel Personalities According to Skolnick

to come up with a working personality to describe the police officer (1966). In other words, there are certain attributes that one...